Leor Halevi
Biographic Data
| ID | 349697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leor Halevi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leor |
| FAMILY NAME | Halevi |
| SIGNATURE | HALEVI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Diffusion of “Small” Western Technologies in the Middle East: Invention, Use and Need in the 19th and 20th Centuries by M. Kupferschmidt (review)
Arabians for guns: Wahhabi matchlocks, world trade, and the rise of the first Saudi state
Historical explanations of the rise and expansion of the first Saudi state have given Wahhabism pride of place. Principally, they have dwelt on religion and ideology, emphasising the role of the eighteenth-century theologian Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and arguing that his charisma, puritanical zeal, exclusivist approach to monotheistic worship, or neo-orthodox reform programme inspired a series of consequential political and military actions, be…
What Hath Allah Wrought? The Global Invention of Prescriptive Machines for the Islamic Consumer, 1975-2010
Unlike histories emphasizing conflicts between religion and technology, this article brings to light a series of religio-technological innovations. It analyzes a dataset of international patents inspired by the practice of Islam, from the first electronic Islamic wristwatch to "The Muslim Xbox." Starting in the 1970s with a few Euro-Muslim inventions, incremental innovations addressing the "needs" of devout Muslims grew exponentially over the cou…
Nationalist Spirits of Islamic Law after World War I: An Arab-Indian Battle of Fatwas over Alcohol, Purity, and Power
In 1922, one of the most famous Muslim scholars of modern times, the Syrian-Egyptian reformer Rashīd Riḍā, published in his journal a detailed fatwa in defense of alcohol. He did so in reaction to an obscure Indian jurist's fatwa that had warned Muslims not to use alcoholic products. On the surface, the authors of the fatwas appeared to be principally concerned with the right way to interpret sacred laws of purity and pollution. However, this art…
To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Olivia Remie Constable
Review Article| January 01 2020 To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Olivia Remie Constable Constable, Olivia Remie, To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, ed. Vose, Robin, foreword by Nirenberg, David (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 248 pp. Leor Halevi Leor Halevi Search for other works by this author …
Is China a House of Islam? Chinese Questions, Arabic Answers, and the Translation of Salafism from Cairo to Canton, 1930-1932
Rashīd Riḍā's six fatwas to China, disregarded by historians of China and by historians of Salafism, greatly expand our historical understanding of transnational intellectual exchanges between Muslim reformers in the interwar period. The questions that prompted the fatwas shed new light on the specific issues that divided Sino-Muslim nationalists in the republican era, when a Chinese awakening coincided with an Islamic awakening. They also reveal…
The Extricability of Things from Religion: A Salafi Perspective on Prayer Machines
"The Extricability of Things from Religion: A Salafi Perspective on Prayer Machines." Material Religion, 12(1), pp. 106–107
Garth Fowden. Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused
In chapter XXXIII of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1788), Edward Gibbon recounted the history of an “insipid legend,” the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, that ended up migrating from late antique Christianity to Islam. It was originally a story about Christianity’s triumphant emergence as an imperial religion, following a period of persecution, retreat, and dormancy. Syriac bishops first narrated it in homilies…
Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
This book focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium, when transportation technology was fragile and religion often a primary marker of identity. It examines a wide range of commercial exchanges from first encounters between strangers who worshipped different gods and originated in different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who live…
Uriel I. Simonsohn. A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam
Between the seventh and eleventh centuries, Jewish and Christian elites frequently fretted about the administration of justice by Muslims. At times, they worried about the challenge that extraconfessional appeals presented to their own legal authority, religious status, and social power. Yet their responses to this problem differed considerably as they addressed diverse circumstances. In some cases, as Uriel I. Simonsohn shows, Jewish sages found…
The Consumer Jihad: Boycott Fatwas and Nonviolent Resistance on the World Wide Web
This article deals with the origins, development, and popularity of boycott fatwas. Born of the marriage of Islamic politics and Islamic economics in an age of digital communications, these fatwas targeted American, Israeli, and Danish commodities between 2000 and 2006. Muftis representing both mainstream and, surprisingly, radical tendencies argued that jihad can be accomplished through nonviolent consumer boycotts. Their argument marks a signif…
Christian Impurity versus Economic Necessity: A Fifteenth-Century Fatwa on European Paper
Wailing for the Dead: The Role of Women in Early Islamic Funerals
The Paradox of Islamization: Tombstone Inscriptions, Qurʾānic Recitations, and the Problem of Religious Change
The Theologian's Doubts: Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazali
The Theologian's Doubts:Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazālī Leor Halevi In the history of skeptical thought, which normally leaps from the Pyrrhonists to the rediscovery of Sextus Empiricus in the sixteenth century, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) figures as a medieval curiosity. As a theologian defending certain Muslim dogmas, Ghazālī has not met what historians consider the mark of the true skeptic, a mind doubting t…
Bernard, Explorer of the Muslim Lake: A Pilgrimage From Rome To Jerusalem, 867
Bernard the Monk's Itinerarium is a ten-page guidebook for pilgrims traveling from Rome and Bari to Babylon and Jerusalem. It has not been studied as a source for Mediterranean history. Bernard shows how the late ninth-century Mediterranean economy was characterized by religious ideology. Islam and Christianity acted differently in establishing the "ethos" of an economy of exchange. While Muslim law and authority channeled the exchange, Christian…
Christian Impurity versus Economic Necessity: A Fifteenth-Century Fatwa on European Paper
Wailing for the Dead: The Role of Women in Early Islamic Funerals
The Paradox of Islamization: Tombstone Inscriptions, Qurʾānic Recitations, and the Problem of Religious Change
The Consumer Jihad: Boycott Fatwas and Nonviolent Resistance on the World Wide Web
This article deals with the origins, development, and popularity of boycott fatwas. Born of the marriage of Islamic politics and Islamic economics in an age of digital communications, these fatwas targeted American, Israeli, and Danish commodities between 2000 and 2006. Muftis representing both mainstream and, surprisingly, radical tendencies argued that jihad can be accomplished through nonviolent consumer boycotts. Their argument marks a signif…
The Theologian's Doubts: Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazali
The Theologian's Doubts:Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazālī Leor Halevi In the history of skeptical thought, which normally leaps from the Pyrrhonists to the rediscovery of Sextus Empiricus in the sixteenth century, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) figures as a medieval curiosity. As a theologian defending certain Muslim dogmas, Ghazālī has not met what historians consider the mark of the true skeptic, a mind doubting t…
Is China a House of Islam? Chinese Questions, Arabic Answers, and the Translation of Salafism from Cairo to Canton, 1930-1932
Rashīd Riḍā's six fatwas to China, disregarded by historians of China and by historians of Salafism, greatly expand our historical understanding of transnational intellectual exchanges between Muslim reformers in the interwar period. The questions that prompted the fatwas shed new light on the specific issues that divided Sino-Muslim nationalists in the republican era, when a Chinese awakening coincided with an Islamic awakening. They also reveal…
Bernard, Explorer of the Muslim Lake: A Pilgrimage From Rome To Jerusalem, 867
Bernard the Monk's Itinerarium is a ten-page guidebook for pilgrims traveling from Rome and Bari to Babylon and Jerusalem. It has not been studied as a source for Mediterranean history. Bernard shows how the late ninth-century Mediterranean economy was characterized by religious ideology. Islam and Christianity acted differently in establishing the "ethos" of an economy of exchange. While Muslim law and authority channeled the exchange, Christian…
Bernard, Explorer of the Muslim Lake: A Pilgrimage From Rome To Jerusalem, 867
Bernard the Monk's Itinerarium is a ten-page guidebook for pilgrims traveling from Rome and Bari to Babylon and Jerusalem. It has not been studied as a source for Mediterranean history. Bernard shows how the late ninth-century Mediterranean economy was characterized by religious ideology. Islam and Christianity acted differently in establishing the "ethos" of an economy of exchange. While Muslim law and authority channeled the exchange, Christian…
The Theologian's Doubts: Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazali
The Theologian's Doubts:Natural Philosophy and the Skeptical Games of Ghazālī Leor Halevi In the history of skeptical thought, which normally leaps from the Pyrrhonists to the rediscovery of Sextus Empiricus in the sixteenth century, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) figures as a medieval curiosity. As a theologian defending certain Muslim dogmas, Ghazālī has not met what historians consider the mark of the true skeptic, a mind doubting t…
Wailing for the Dead: The Role of Women in Early Islamic Funerals
The Paradox of Islamization: Tombstone Inscriptions, Qurʾānic Recitations, and the Problem of Religious Change
Christian Impurity versus Economic Necessity: A Fifteenth-Century Fatwa on European Paper
The Consumer Jihad: Boycott Fatwas and Nonviolent Resistance on the World Wide Web
This article deals with the origins, development, and popularity of boycott fatwas. Born of the marriage of Islamic politics and Islamic economics in an age of digital communications, these fatwas targeted American, Israeli, and Danish commodities between 2000 and 2006. Muftis representing both mainstream and, surprisingly, radical tendencies argued that jihad can be accomplished through nonviolent consumer boycotts. Their argument marks a signif…
Uriel I. Simonsohn. A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam
Between the seventh and eleventh centuries, Jewish and Christian elites frequently fretted about the administration of justice by Muslims. At times, they worried about the challenge that extraconfessional appeals presented to their own legal authority, religious status, and social power. Yet their responses to this problem differed considerably as they addressed diverse circumstances. In some cases, as Uriel I. Simonsohn shows, Jewish sages found…
Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
This book focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium, when transportation technology was fragile and religion often a primary marker of identity. It examines a wide range of commercial exchanges from first encounters between strangers who worshipped different gods and originated in different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who live…
Garth Fowden. Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused
In chapter XXXIII of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1788), Edward Gibbon recounted the history of an “insipid legend,” the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, that ended up migrating from late antique Christianity to Islam. It was originally a story about Christianity’s triumphant emergence as an imperial religion, following a period of persecution, retreat, and dormancy. Syriac bishops first narrated it in homilies…
The Extricability of Things from Religion: A Salafi Perspective on Prayer Machines
"The Extricability of Things from Religion: A Salafi Perspective on Prayer Machines." Material Religion, 12(1), pp. 106–107
Is China a House of Islam? Chinese Questions, Arabic Answers, and the Translation of Salafism from Cairo to Canton, 1930-1932
Rashīd Riḍā's six fatwas to China, disregarded by historians of China and by historians of Salafism, greatly expand our historical understanding of transnational intellectual exchanges between Muslim reformers in the interwar period. The questions that prompted the fatwas shed new light on the specific issues that divided Sino-Muslim nationalists in the republican era, when a Chinese awakening coincided with an Islamic awakening. They also reveal…
Nationalist Spirits of Islamic Law after World War I: An Arab-Indian Battle of Fatwas over Alcohol, Purity, and Power
In 1922, one of the most famous Muslim scholars of modern times, the Syrian-Egyptian reformer Rashīd Riḍā, published in his journal a detailed fatwa in defense of alcohol. He did so in reaction to an obscure Indian jurist's fatwa that had warned Muslims not to use alcoholic products. On the surface, the authors of the fatwas appeared to be principally concerned with the right way to interpret sacred laws of purity and pollution. However, this art…
To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Olivia Remie Constable
Review Article| January 01 2020 To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Olivia Remie Constable Constable, Olivia Remie, To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, ed. Vose, Robin, foreword by Nirenberg, David (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 248 pp. Leor Halevi Leor Halevi Search for other works by this author …
What Hath Allah Wrought? The Global Invention of Prescriptive Machines for the Islamic Consumer, 1975-2010
Unlike histories emphasizing conflicts between religion and technology, this article brings to light a series of religio-technological innovations. It analyzes a dataset of international patents inspired by the practice of Islam, from the first electronic Islamic wristwatch to "The Muslim Xbox." Starting in the 1970s with a few Euro-Muslim inventions, incremental innovations addressing the "needs" of devout Muslims grew exponentially over the cou…
Arabians for guns: Wahhabi matchlocks, world trade, and the rise of the first Saudi state
Historical explanations of the rise and expansion of the first Saudi state have given Wahhabism pride of place. Principally, they have dwelt on religion and ideology, emphasising the role of the eighteenth-century theologian Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb and arguing that his charisma, puritanical zeal, exclusivist approach to monotheistic worship, or neo-orthodox reform programme inspired a series of consequential political and military actions, be…
The Diffusion of “Small” Western Technologies in the Middle East: Invention, Use and Need in the 19th and 20th Centuries by M. Kupferschmidt (review)
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